• Fmstrat@lemmy.world
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    "The Black caucus went to the Republican caucus after the 1990 census and said, ‘We’ve been voting for Democrats for 100 years and we’re no better off,’” Eaddy Roe Willard, a Republican activist in South Carolina, recalled of a redistricting debate that year. “We will vote with your map on the condition that you draw one congressional district where an African American can be elected.”

    Just… sad state of things.

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        Its fascinating how it all goes poof if a white person calls then out about it IRL.

        I have said “you just want to be racist” more times than I should have and they immediately get all offended.

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    8 days ago

    I can’t believe that after 165 years, the confederacy seems to be winning the civil war.

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    Clyburn is a gigantic piece of corrupt shit. Easily one of the worst Democrats currently in Congress.

    No doubt what comes next will be even worse.

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    Honestly fuck James Clyburn. That motherfucker has betrayed the progressive wing more times than I can count, and now he’s on the chopping block. A predictable result.

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    Uncle Jim! You should’ve offered more than platitudes and throwing progressives under the bus and maybe your constituents would help you out. Also Tim Scott?!